Ancestry of General
Robert E. Lee

Confederate Army - U.S. Civil War

Richard Lee

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Robert E. Lee — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 32 
  • Father:
  • John Lee 
  • Mother:
  • Jane Hancock   
  • Birth Date:
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  • Birth Location:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 22 Mar 1617/1618 
  • Christening Location:
  • Worcester Saint Martin, Worcestershire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • from 06 FEB 1663/1664 to 20 APR 1664 
  • Death Location:
  • Dividing Creek (later Cobbs Hall), Northumberland Co., England 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Anne Constable
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1641 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Jamestown, Virginia 
  • Children:
  
  

  John Lee

  Richard Lee (Ahnentafel No:16 )

  Francis Lee

  William Lee

  Hancock Lee

  Elizabeth "Betsy" Lee

  Ann Lee

  Charles Lee

• Sources for Richard Lee

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1892, Vol. 46, Page 64+.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1872, Vol. 26, p. 61.
  • ³ Barthelmas, Della Gray, The Signers of the Declaration of Independence: A Biographical and Genealogical Reference, Jefferson, N.C. and London: McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers (1997), 152.
  • ⁴ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 403.
  • ⁵ Hardy, Stella Pickett, Colonial Families of the Southern States of America: A History and Genealogy of Colonial Families Who Settled . . ., New York: Tobias A. Wright (1911), 320.
  • ⁶ Nagel, Paul C., The Lees of Virginia: Seven Generations of an American Family, New York: Oxford University Press (2007), Chart preceding p. 3.
  • ⁷ Pecquet du Bellet, Louise, Some Prominent Virginia Families, Vol. 4, Lynchburg, VA: J. P. Bell Company (1907), 84.
  • ⁸ Pecquet du Bellet, Louise, Some Prominent Virginia Families, Vol. 4, Lynchburg, VA: J. P. Bell Company (1907), 71.
  • ⁹ Wakefield, Robert S. and Margaret Harris Stover, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 17, Isaac Allerton, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2015), 22.
  • ¹⁰ Washington and Lee University, "Lee Family Digital Archive", (accessed 28 MAY 2013).
  • ¹¹ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215 and Some of their . . ., 5th edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (Third Printing, 2006), 165.
  • ¹² Wikipedia, "Richard Lee I", (accessed 03/07/2010).
  • ¹³ Wikipedia, "Richard Lee II", (accessed 03/07/2010).